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暗殺の二重奏
The first thing is Japan's image. It's obvious in SAC other powerful countries are satirized, like CIA. And this time it is China.
Although it is not proclaimed clearly, judging from the pictures, apparently China must have been the bad one in the previous war, just like Japan in WWⅡ.
So, what would this mean, patriotism or shameless accusation? Or I shouldn't be so serious since it's only fictional plot?
The second thing would be closer to the main theme of GITS. Memory vs personality; thinking vs action. A man could resurrect from death (even on his own son!) through the memory stored in the electronic brain. The influence that the electronic brain might work upon human beings' styles of existence now is gradually showing up.
People are now free to choose to live without body (like the director) or to die with will to live (like辻崎). The borderline between life and death thus is blurred. And it's more and more difficult for a person to claim to be a being with unique and independent thinking since it's so easy to rewrite the memory and to hack into the brain.
Of course, this is still fictional plot. And this kind of technique would arouse much controversy of ethics (much more than that of human cloning, I think) in real life. However, for me, this kind of problem is worth imagining and wondering.
由 drinker 發表於 March 2, 2004 11:12 PM | 引用